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Rosevi�le Recycxing Pilot Program <br />Introduct�on <br />Every year Roseville residents are throwing things in their trash carts �hat <br />could be put in their recycling bins. As a result our landfills are filling up <br />faster than necessary, there's not enough recyclable material to meet <br />manufacturers demands, and Roseville residents are missing out on the <br />op�ortunity to save money by switching smaller gaxbage carts. But those <br />things could change by redesi�ning the City's curbside recycling progira.nn so <br />that residents put more of their unwanted things in their recycling. <br />As part of its current recycli.z�g contract with Roseville, Waste Management <br />agreed to participate in this pilot progtarn by providing different types of <br />coilection services in different pilot study areas. Rarrisey County is <br />providing technical assistance to municipalities on recyciing issues through a <br />contract with the consulting firm of R. W. Beck, with Dan Krivit and <br />Associates as subcontractor (referred to in this report as Beck/Krivit). The <br />City and County agreed that the County would authorize Beck/Krivit io <br />consult with Roseville on this pilot progratn for two purposes: a) specif cally <br />to help the City develop and implement its pilot program; and b) to xnake <br />pertinent resulting information available to other communities in Ramsey <br />County and the metropolitan area. <br />Figure One <br />Recycling Block Leader <br />with 5ign <br />In 2002 the ad hac Residential So�id Waste and Recycling Citizen Advisory Conuiuttee studied the City's <br />garbage and recycling policies and programs. Members heard presentations, read reports and visited <br />recycling facilities. Committee members identified three levels of service that could improve Roseville's <br />recycling program: weekly two-sort collection, single-stream collection and increased education with the <br />current two-sort, bi-weekly collection systenn. The Committee could not reach a consensus on which level of <br />service to recaxnrnend. Instead the Committee's report listed fihe pros and cons of each proposal and called <br />for furiher investigation and deliberation by subsequent groups. <br />The City designed a pilot program to incflrporate the Committee's work and to build on the success of the <br />recently compleied studies. "Improving Recycling of Residential Paper in Minnesota," {December lb, 2002} <br />conducted by the Recycling Association of Minnesota (RAM), focused on efforts to spur residents to recycle <br />znore paper, especially mixed paper, using piloi studies in a few cities in and near the metropolitan area. "A <br />Comparative Analysis of Applied Recycling Col�ection Meihods," (May 20d2} conducted by Eureka <br />Recycling during 2001-2 featured a comparison of different approaches to collecting residential recyclables <br />through pilot studies of each approach in several neighborhoods in the City of St. Paul. These approaches <br />including source-separated, dual-stream, and single-stream recycling collection, coupled with variations in <br />callection frequency and bins and carts. <br />H1StOI'y <br />Roseville has contracted for curbside recycling of single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes and four-plexes <br />since July 1987. The program was once a month collection from July 1987 — Juiy 1988, twice a month <br />collection from August 1988 — December 1998 and since January 1999 every other week collection. <br />2 <br />